W J V Grant

The Blackest Berry (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is set on the island of Jamaica, with themes of violent enforcement of status quos. However, against odds the young girl Tessa recovers her sense of self. Tessa is an amateur botanist and slave, a force of nature. The old master names her after the familys home of, Tessington House, back in England. She is seen as derisory, too puny. Age six; her mother is sold to the Mapletons Plantation in St Elizabeth, after numerous episodes of disobedience and due to her vicious temper and sexual annexation of her slave lover, Jake; because she attacks a contender for Jakes affection; after she catches her lover Jake, in an uncompromising position, with the woman she attacks her with her bill. Age thirteen Tessa is raped by the new young master, Mr. Rodney Galton-Masterson. But Tessa keeps the rape, like an unwanted present tightly wrapped and concealed even from her aunt girl, especially amongst her friends, like Puncy and Hero. After the overseer William Kelley informs the new master that he would need to break in the young slave girls, if he wanted to breed from them, he does just that.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris UK
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781499086775
• Artikelnr.: 52571309

Autorenporträt

She was born and educated partly in Jamaica and England. My research for this novel drew me into the vast archives of the Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade and I discovered that it resonates deeply within her own curiosity for history and its account of the past. This story emerged to her with utter bliss, prompted by the fact that she spent part of her childhood in the birthplace of two of the protagonist; appearing in the novel- Tessa and Rodney.